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directed by Edward Gilbert...
There is no doubt that the performance is intense; no rendition short of a farce can escape the play's inherent potency, Director Edward Gilbert makes a grave mistake, though, when he sustains the play's intensity from start to finish (a total of three hours and ten minutes), a move that results in tediousness and a slumbering audience...
...explosive nature of these repressed emotions does not appear, however, in Gilbert's version of the drama. Gilbert's production comes across as simply three pissedoff alcoholics, one of whom is consumptive, trying to hide their thoughts and emotions from the aged drug-addicted mother-figure. The tension exists but, since this it never remits, its effect on the audience is lost through the resulting absence of transition and change. Apologies become stiff and insincere and there is no room for noticeable reaction to events within the plot...
Casting is as crucial a decision for cartoons as for live-action films. Aladdin's voice cast includes curmudgeonly comic Gilbert Gottfried as Jafar's parrot and Lea Salonga, the original Miss Saigon, as the singing voice of Jasmine. But the true inspiration was to have the Genie voiced by Williams, whose comedy routines pinball from one manic impression to another. Every time Williams would lurch into a new character, even if for a second, the Genie would assume that form. In five recording sessions spanning 15 months, Williams simply revolutionized cartoon voice acting. "Until now," Katzenberg notes, "we have...
Corporate Editor: Gilbert Rogin...